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...scholars, and every so often some patient scriptural sleuth turns up another important piece of evidence. Recently, a Roman Catholic scholar arrived at a finding that could turn out to be this century's most important development in New Testament scholarship. He has concluded that a hitherto neglected fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, written within two decades of the crucifixion of Christ, is actually a passage from the Gospel of Mark...
...fixed. Moreover, it survived. There is a long history of architectural fantasy that runs to the grand biblical film sets of Griffith and De Mille from such preposterous imaginary views of antiquity as Piranesi's frontispiece for his book of drawings called Magnificenze di Roma. Every monument and fragment along the Appian Way, plus a few dozen that never existed, is jammed into it. The line between archaeological commitment and sheer mania was, in Piranesi, very thin...
...COMMENT implies that there should be University studios for the other practicing arts, following a model similar to that of the pottery. This would be difficult, however, through any existing organizations. For example, the House system set up small programs open only to House members, which tends to fragment and duplicate efforts in this area. House art programs tend to be someone's part-time responsibility, run haphazardly as a recreational activity involving very few people. Moreover, Houses don't have the funds to support a quality workshop. A high-quality program needs an experienced person to organize, supervise...
...desire for naturalism is deliciously expressed in a fragment from a huge Tree of Jesse, which probably decorated the first organ installed in St. Leonard's in the 16th century: David, dancing a jig before the Lord. Exuberance, indeed, was the most endearing characteristic of these relatively provincial Flemish masters. St. Leonard's carved altarpiece of the life of St. Anne-it stands 9 ft. high and contains more than 75 figures-is a virtuoso piece, designed to astonish. But through its mannered intricacies, the dumpy Flemish women and men are arguing and gesturing, holding towels for childbirth...
This is a family play, though it only contains the fragment of a family: a mother, her daughter and the mother's brother, who drops in from time to time. The mother, Weedy (Clarice Taylor), is both possessive and plaintive, one of those women who suck up so much of the oxygen in a room that no one else can breathe. Her thirtyish daughter Alberta (Frances Foster) is all nerves-lonely, desperate and starved for a man's caressing hands. Uncle Doc (Adolph Caesar) is an alcoholic numbers player...